About the Exam

This exam validates the ability to translate business and technical requirements into a complete HPE solution design, including GreenLake, storage, compute, and networking. It is aimed at presales solution architects who plan and design HPE solutions. Passing demonstrates competence in analyzing customer requirements, positioning HPE offerings, and architecting solutions across available consumption models and hosting locations.

Exam Topics

  • Describe, differentiate, and apply IT industry trends, standard architectures, technologies, and cloud delivery models.15%
  • Gather and analyze customer business and technical requirements20%
  • Recommend and position HPE offerings (solutions, products, and services) for customer use cases20%
  • Architect and design an HPE solution based on customer needs24%
  • Present and demonstrate the solution to the customer and coordinate implementation planning13%
  • Perform ongoing enhancements to a solution including upgrades, migration, optimization, etc.8%

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QuestionQ1

Present and demonstrate the solution to the customer and coordinate implementation planning

A customer has requested that various UEFI BIOS settings be preconfigured at the factory in their new servers.

How do you submit the request for these changes to HPE?

  • A Add the required settings in the Customer Intent Document.
  • B Add the required settings in the Order Checklist.
  • C Export the configuration to an XML file, open in Word and add the required settings.
  • D Export the configuration to an OCA file, open in Word and add the required settings.
Explanation

HPE Factory Express requires a Customer Intent Document (CID) to communicate customer-specific factory build and configuration instructions. Requested UEFI BIOS preconfiguration is therefore submitted by adding the required settings to the CID.

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QuestionQ2

Recommend and position HPE offerings (solutions, products, and services) for customer use cases

A customer requires a new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. You have recommended HPE Synergy for the compute.

Which HPE storage platform should be included to complete the solution?

  • A Alletra 6000
  • B StoreEasy
  • C Qumulo
  • D SimpliVity
Explanation

HPE Alletra 6000 provides high-performance all-flash shared block storage appropriate for VDI workloads and complements HPE Synergy compute in a disaggregated solution.

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QuestionQ3

Gather and analyze customer business and technical requirements

You need to establish whether resource contention exists between VMs in an HPE Hyper-V environment.

Which tool should you use?

  • A HPE CloudPhysics
  • B HPE Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK)
  • C HPE NinjaSTARS
  • D HPE InfoSight
Explanation

HPE InfoSight includes Hyper-V VM analytics with I/O, memory, and CPU contention trends, enabling identification of resource contention among virtual machines.

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QuestionQ4

Present and demonstrate the solution to the customer and coordinate implementation planning

You are presenting an HPE Alletra 9000 solution to a customer. They request a high-level implementation checklist to prepare their site before implementation.

Which resource can you share with the customer to help provide this checklist?

  • A InfoSight Welcome Center
  • B Data Services Cloud Console
  • C SmartCID
  • D SPOCK
Explanation

HPE InfoSight Welcome Center provides a guided experience for installing HPE storage, including preinstallation and physical-installation preparation. It is the appropriate customer-facing resource for site-readiness and implementation checklist activities.

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QuestionQ5

Recommend and position HPE offerings (solutions, products, and services) for customer use cases

Which differentiated business benefit does HPE GreenLake give a customer that a conventional capital-outlay purchasing model does not provide?

  • A Eliminate recurring costs
  • B Reduce accounts payable balance
  • C Improve liquidity
  • D Increased overprovisioning
Explanation

HPE GreenLake's pay-per-use consumption model avoids the large upfront capital investment of a traditional purchase, freeing cash and improving liquidity. Recurring service charges remain, and the model is designed to reduce overprovisioning.

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